Can You Do Gaharu?

Aquilaria, or in layman’s terms Gaharu or Agarwood, has been an exclusive commodity for almost 3,000 years in based both Hindi as well as Muslim traditions and cultures. Gaharu can even be found as used in processions and blessings by the Catholic church and the pope. However, whilst this ‘black gold’ product has been a booming business in the last 50 years it has also attracted a poor reputation after the unwanted focus of several investment companies selling individual trees at an over inflated rate.

Natural occurring Agarwood resin is in rapid decline and nearing extinction in the wild and is covered by the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species, or CITES for short. As a matter of fact, experts estimate that the global population has declined by 80% in the last 150 years, even for those remaining natural occurring Aquilaria trees the frequency of natural fungal infection is extremely low, some estimates say that only 2% of wild Aquilaria trees are adequately infected to produce Agarwood naturally.

Due to unsustainable production and illegal poaching, what little naturally occurring Aquilaria trees remain are harvested prematurely.

When “can you do Gaharu?” was asked to Albert Bruinekool, the founder of Prima Plants Research and Development he could not at that moment understand how much it would change his life and that of thousands of investors and farmers all over the world.

12 years later, we now proudly present a 5-tier solution to the business of cultivating and maintaining this ‘black gold’, trying to put right the wrongs done within this industry. We offer 4 existing solutions whilst we research and develop the final 5th solution: